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Making And Decorating Your Own Paper: Innovative Techniques & Original Projects - Hardcover

Blake, Kathy; Milne, Bill

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9780806905440: Making And Decorating Your Own Paper: Innovative Techniques & Original Projects
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0806905441 ISBN 13: 9780806905440
Publisher: Sterling, 1994

Synopsis

"...How to construct new and recycle old paper; create books, cards, and frames; and embellish boxes....An eight-page gallery at the end, in addition to samples pictured throughout the text, helps make their vision real."--Booklist. "...filled with low-cost techniques aimed at the individual artist who needs basic recipes and methods of papermaking...describe[s] how to decorate finished paper surfaces through the use of dyes, printing, stencils, and marbling....Visually appealing."--LJ. 144 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.

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Reviews

Fine art papermaking has enjoyed a surge of interest in the past ten years. These two recent additions to the growing body of instructional guides have much in common. Both volumes are filled with low-cost techniques aimed at the individual artist who needs basic recipes and methods of papermaking, from raw fiber to the completion of a high-quality product. Both describe how to decorate finished paper surfaces through the use of dyes, printing, stencils, and marbling. Both cover book making, and both are visually appealing works. Thereafter, these two guides begin to diverge. Shannon includes a broader range of three-dimensional projects such as lamp shades, window screens, and papier mache jewelry, while Blake and Milne focus more on stationery, albums, and decorative picture frames. Shannon offers diagrams that are a bit easier to understand and more text, but with no words wasted; the level of her writing is sophisticated enough to be interesting without being overly technical. For these reasons, her book is the more highly recommended, though both books would be popular in public library collections.
Sue Olcott, Columbus Metro-politan Lib., Ohio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Publisher
Sterling
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0806905441
ISBN 13 
9780806905440
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
144
Rating
  • 3.83 out of 5 stars
    6 ratings by Goodreads